Saturday, March 15, 2014

Nadav Shragai commented on the disturbing derangement consuming some Haredis seething with vengeance against the wider public's wish that they share the burden in building Israel:

"Revenge will come," vowed MK Moshe Gafni, of United Torah Judaism's Degel Hatorah faction, in response to the enlistment law. "It will be cold and it will be painful. At the first opportunity, I will make sure to strangle the budget and shutter the hesder yeshivot."

Gafni is not alone. Ultra-Orthodox politicians have been intimating the possibility of a haredi boycott against settlement products. Shas MK Yitzhak Cohen suggested the initiative on Army Radio. Yated Ne'eman, the Degel Hatorah daily, has joined forces with the Left and European supporters of boycotts, publishing several pieces attacking the settlement enterprise and its funding. Meanwhile, Shas leader Aryeh Deri issued a warning: "Don't take the ultra-Orthodox public in the national referendum for granted. The opposite may happen."

Hearing is not believing. Is this the Torah, which the haredi politicians claim to uphold? In all fairness, United Torah Judaism MK Meir Porush and Shas MK Eli Yishai are disgusted by these pronouncements. Are you out of your minds? Were you shot in the foot? Perhaps. But now are you shooting yourself in the other? Are you planning to die with the Philistines? "My enemy" shall take vengeance against me, even if we fall together? Does one act of "betrayal," as you've defined it, warrant another? And against whom? The settlers? So many of them study the Torah just like you. But they also serve in the army.

According to such logic, you also need to throw wrenches in the wheels of the Old City's glorious settlement. On Hagai Street, near the Iron Gate, Jews, especially haredim, were expelled during the Arab riots of 1929 and 1936-39. Indeed, religious Zionists live there today. What would Rabbi Zerah Epstein, the "haredi" head of the Torat Haim yeshiva, who was attacked and forced to flee during those same uprisings, have said? Would he have welcomed the onslaught against the very community working to revive the voice of Torah and promote Jewish settlement in the heart of Jerusalem, simply because such individuals weren't haredim? Isn't settling the land of Israel a mitzvah in your Torah? Have you read Nahmanides' "Book of Commandments," Chapter 4?

And, are they not aware some of these "settlers" happen to be Haredi too? It's clear the leaders of the Haredi community is going off the rails, letting their disagreements get the better of them to the point of taking bizarre revenge, even if it means trashing everything the Torah is all about. This is another sign they hardly have any respect for what they're allegedly promoting. In fact, Aryeh Deri's just declared his support for the Labor party's Isaac Herzog, seeing them as a perfect way to spite the Zionist side for wanting Haredis to be more productive. While it may not help Herzog and company, since many leftists actually do have a problem with the Haredis, for both good and bad reasons, it's still very disturbing.

This is something everybody should pay careful attention to, since there's telling signs the Haredi society is heading down a very slippery slope.

Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas is not a partner for a genuine peace deal, Defense Minister Moshe Ya’alon said Saturday in an interview in which he poured ice-cold water on US-led peace efforts, also predicting that a permanent accord would not be attained in his lifetime.

Speaking to Channel 2, the Likud minister said bitterly that the Palestinian leader was “a partner for taking, but not a partner for giving. He’s not a partner for a final agreement, at the end of which there is recognition of Israel’s rights as the nation state of the Jewish people, an end of the conflict and an end to all demands. He [Abbas] says this openly,” said Ya’alon.

The defense minister, a former IDF chief of staff and a very senior government figure, who has filled in as prime minister when Benjamin Netanyahu is indisposed, said he believed full peace “won’t happen in my generation.”

It won't happen because of the Koran's influence, is what. That's one thing I wish he'd be bold enough to bring up. All the same, he's spoken some truth to power.

U.S. officials announced plans Friday to relinquish federal government control over the administration of the Internet, a move that pleased international critics but alarmed some business leaders and others who rely on the smooth functioning of the Web.

Pressure to let go of the final vestiges of U.S. authority over the system of Web addresses and domain names that organize the Internet has been building for more than a decade and was supercharged by the backlash last year to revelations about National Security Agency surveillance.

The change would end the long-running contract between the Commerce Department and the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN), a California-based nonprofit group. That contract is set to expire next year but could be extended if the transition plan is not complete.

“We look forward to ICANN convening stakeholders across the global Internet community to craft an appropriate transition plan,” Lawrence E. Strickling, assistant secretary of commerce for communications and information, said in a statement.

The announcement received a passionate response, with some groups quickly embracing the change and others blasting it.

In a statement, Senate Commerce Committee Chairman John D. Rockefeller IV (D-W.Va.) called the move “consistent with other efforts the U.S. and our allies are making to promote a free and open Internet, and to preserve and advance the current multi-stakeholder model of global Internet governance.”

But former House speaker Newt Gingrich (R-Ga.) tweeted: “What is the global internet community that Obama wants to turn the internet over to? This risks foreign dictatorships defining the internet.”

He's right. What if this enables Islamic governments to dominate the internet? All the same, I do think assignment of IP numbers and domains should be the responsibility for private companies. But if there's any chance here for autocracies and even corrupt European governments to damage free speech on the internet, that's why any change can't be made for their sake.

The Jerusalem Post spoke about the townspeople in Ashkelon and Sderot who've had to live a very un-normal, unpleasant life because of all the rocket attacks being launched by Hamas and Islamic Jihad from Gaza.

Almost forgot to write about this unpleasant information, proof of why America's failure to get rid of Islam in Iraq had to be the biggest mistake they could make:

About two dozen Iraqi women demonstrated on Saturday in Baghdad against a draft law approved by the Iraqi cabinet that would permit the marriage of nine-year-old girls and automatically give child custody to fathers.

The group's protest was on International Women's Day and a week after the cabinet voted for the legislation, based on Shi'ite Islamic jurisprudence, allowing clergy to preside over marriages, divorces and inheritances. The draft now goes to parliament.

"On this day of women, women of Iraq are in mourning," the protesters shouted.

"We believe that this is a crime against humanity," said Hanaa Eduar, a prominent Iraqi human rights activist. "It would deprive a girl of her right to live a normal childhood."

The UN's representative to Iraq, Nickolay Mladenov, also condemned the legislation. Mladenov wrote on Twitter the bill "risks constitutionally protected rights for women and international commitment".

The legislation goes to the heart of the divisions in Iraq since the overthrow of Saddam Hussein in 2003, as Shi'ite Islamists have come to lead the government and look to impose their religious values on society at large.

It describes girls as reaching puberty at nine, making them fit for marriage, makes the father sole guardian of his children at two and condones a husband's right to insist on sexual intercourse with his wife whenever he wishes.

The legislation is referred to as the Ja'afari Law, named after the sixth Shi'ite imam Ja'afar al-Sadiq, who founded his own school of jurisprudence.

I don't know if this bill will come to pass soon, but it could, and we have the Koran/Hadith's approval of Muhammed's marriage to Ayesha to thank for this new horror in Iraq.

Saudi authorities seized 140 kilos of persimmons from Israel at a local market near the border with Jordan, local media reported.

The fruit had Israeli stickers on it and was found in the city of Qurayyat, in northern Saudi Arabia.

The head of the municipality’s environmental health department, Abdulaziz al-Masaed, said that authorities acted on information that Israeli fruit was being sold in the market.

[...] Masaed said that the Commerce and Industry Ministry had been notified. He added that he did not know how the fruit could have entered the country, as its origin was marked.

Who cares? One silver lining here is the embarrassment it caused to those Islamobigots who deserved it. Yet it is a shame they're still carrying on their selfish little petty hostilities and not willing to give Israel's products a try, all because of their obsession with the Koran's beliefs.

A group of Lev Tahor children travelling without their parents immediately raised red flags for immigration officials in Trinidad and Tobago, says the country's attorney general.

“The group ... aroused the suspicions of our immigration authorities when the young children in their care could not be accounted for properly, as they were not being accompanied by their parents or legal guardians,” Trinidad Attorney General Anand Ramlogan, told CBC News.

Some members of the ultra-Orthodox Jewish sect, originally from Quebec, fled Canada last week to head for Guatemala — but they were intercepted in transit in Trinidad.

Ramlogan said officials grew suspicious after asking the group more questions.

“The group was travelling to Guatemala, but did not speak Spanish and could not properly account for the reason and purpose for their visit to Guatemala, and far less, the duration of their stay.… In addition, they could not explain what was the purpose of their trip — either in transit to Trinidad or to Guatemala."

Ramlogan said this caused officials to think the children’s safety was at risk.

“These are matters — given the international concerns about child labour, child prostitution, the harvesting of organs from little children and, of course, human trafficking on the whole — that would be of obvious concern to any serious immigration and border protection agency,” Ramlogan said.

Border agents prevented the group from continuing their travel to Central America and contacted Canada’s Justice Ministry.

So the 3 adults accompanying the 6 children were not their parents! Now it's definitely a case of kidnapping, and they should face serious charges for their crime. Their lawyers in Canada should also face contempt charges for all problems they caused.

“I think this is a group that has attracted widespread controversy and attention, and their short stay with us in Trinidad and Tobago is one that has been very colourful,” Ramlogan said, adding that authorities in Trinidad acted appropriately.

He's right. Their abusive, oppressive behavior, particularly towards children, and hostile attitude towards Israel is exactly what's drawn attention, ditto their combination of elements from Islam. A recent sad related topic is that, after returning to Canada, 3 children went on hunger strikes, undoubtably via the cult's influence. This is just why they cannot continue relations with Lev Tahor, because it's clear they could influence them to perform even more terrible self-infliction.

THIS IS AN IMPORTANT STORY ONLY FOR THE POSTMODERN LEFT - AND IT IS IMPORTANT ONLY BECAUSE IT IS PART OF THEIR GRAMSIAN GOAL OF DEMOLISHING THE FOUNDATIONS OF WESTERN CIVILIZATION IN ORDER TO REPLACE THEM WITH SOCIALISTIC INSTITUTIONS WHICH THEY BELIEVE WILL LEAD TO A SEXUALLY-PERMISSIVE NANNYSTATE, CO2-FREE UTOPIA.

THEIR MORAL CODE AMOUNTS TO NO MORE THAN "DO WHAT THOU WILT", AND DOING WHAT SEEMS RIGHT IN "ONE'S OWN EYES" - A BELIEF THAT MORALITY IS SUBJECTIVE, AND THAT WHAT IS MORAL AND RIGHT AND GOOD IS NOT UNIVERSAL, OR ETERNAL.THIS IS NOT NEW:

"Woe to those who call evil good, and good evil; Who put darkness for light, and light for darkness; Who put bitter for sweet, and sweet for bitter! Woe to those who are wise in their own eyes, And prudent in their own sight!"

Isaiah 5:20-21TO GAIN FOLLOWERS AND POWER, THEY USE THE PROPAGANDA OF ENVY TO IGNITE CLASS WAR, AND PROMISE UNLIMITED SEX:
2 Peter 2:1-10:

Wednesday, March 12, 2014

... firms added full-time workers at the fastest pace in three years, a major surprise that suggests the economy is finally generating jobs after a painful fallow period. The upbeat report sent the local dollar up half a U.S. cent as investors priced out any chance of a cut in interest rates, and even toyed with the idea of a hike late in 2015. Thursday's data from the Australian Bureau of Statistics showed employment climbed 47,300 in February, more than double market forecasts. January's result was also revised up sharply to an 18,000 gain from a drop of 3,700. Particularly encouraging was an 80,500 jump in full-time jobs, a sign firms were becoming more confident about taking on workers permanently.

I would be a terrible editor for "Ms. Marvel" because that is not a culture I understand anything about. I just don't have the background in it -- I'd have to research it. I could do that, but it would be clinical research. It's not genuine. It’s not my experiences. But the folks working on that title (Muslim editor/writer) have that experience, and bring it to the project.

Even if they hadn't gone out of their way to produce such an embarrassment at all costs, Brevoort's still a terrible editor. He proved that the moment he and Joe Quesada greenlighted Avengers: Disassembled, the catalyst for some of the worst modern company wide crossovers, leading to a situation where they're all stunts all the time. Now, he's letting everybody know he's not a man who cares to educate himself about other cultures, setting a poor example.

Cartoonist Bosch Fawstin, a former Muslim himself, confronted him on Twitter, and in the end, Brevoort just broke down into an insult:

@BoschFawstin Because I am not the be-all and end-all. And our purpose on this Earth is to learn things and discover things.
— Tom Brevoort (@TomBrevoort) March 11, 2014

@BoschFawstin It sounds like you know nothing about it as well, apart from jingoistic rhetoric.
— Tom Brevoort (@TomBrevoort) March 11, 2014

He knows nothing about Islam, openly admits he doesn't even care to research it, thinking it would be "clinical" only, yet he casts judgement and declares that no man or woman who leave the Religion of Peace are allowed to criticize their former lifestyle. He's not very honest either, or he'd admit he thinks only Judeo-Christians are allowed to. One of the tweeters said in reply:

Yeah, maybe little Tommy is! At the same time, based on Islam's hostility to LGBT, if he supports Islam, then he must be a homophobe!

Later on, after this took place, he said:

A sad day on Twitter--actually reached the point where I used the block function, after all these years.
— Tom Brevoort (@TomBrevoort) March 12, 2014

I assume after he realized he blew the whole argument, he took the easy way out and shunned all the dissenters. Poor man. He just isn't brave enough to admit he makes mistakes.

And why was he editing books featuring Captain America if he hates "jingoism"? Does money trump ideology? If he doesn't like patriotism, he shouldn't be working on anything remotely connected with Steve Rogers.

Tuesday, March 11, 2014

Parents have condemned a school’s decision to ban all pork products from the menu and replace other meats with halal versions.

Pupils aged between three and 11 at Brinsworth Manor Infant and Junior Schools in Rotherham – which Ofsted identifies as having only a small number of pupils from minority ethnic groups – will no longer be able to enjoy sausages, bacon or ham.

I'll note that sausages aren't always made with pork - they could be made with kosher materials too - so if hot dogs, as they're known pop culture terms, have been taken off the menu at the school, that's weird.

Parents at both schools, which share a site, were told of the decision in a letter from Rotherham Council’s principal catering officer Ron Parry, who wrote that there had been ‘minor adjustments’ to the lunch menu.

The move comes as Britain’s vet John Blackwell called for Muslims and Jews to use more ‘acceptable’ methods of killing.

And parents have branded the decision ‘a scandal’ as only twenty per cent of the 600 pupils are Muslim and the decision to provide halal meat was up to individual schools in the town.

A mother with an 11-year-old girl at the school, who asked not to be named for fear of being branded racist, said: ‘At home I pay more for organic and free range food. I am a Christian but I don’t do it because of that, it’s more for the respect of how animals are killed.

‘The way the animals are slaughtered for halal meat is a religious killing and I don’t feel it should be in schools.

‘My daughter has been anxious about the change as she has concerns about if it is humane killing. I believe in animal welfare rights and standards of meat production that halal does not follow.

‘I feel as strongly against eating meat that had been blessed in the name of a god I don’t believe in and the animal killed in a way I do not agree with, as Muslims do against eating non-halal meat.

‘The children love pork and it’s a scandal to take these meats off the menu to please, what I consider to be, a low number of children who require halal meat.

‘The majority of the children are now having school meals that are made for the minority. The halal children have always had the vegetarian and fish options.'

What I can say about halal food is that it's not as healthily developed as kosher food is. Again, the UK's making a terrible joke of itself.

The UK, along with the European Union (EU) and other European governments, has been investing massive public funds in an NGO engaged in lawfare against Israel's legal system, reports research institute NGO Monitor.

The NGO, called the Norwegian Refugee Council (NRC), has been acting to sabotage Israel's legal processes, according to the report, which was released in time for British Prime Minister David Cameron's visit to Israel on Wednesday.

"From 2011-2015, the UK provided £6 million (roughly $10 million) to NRC, one of the largest single grants to any NGO in the region, used to pursue legal cases aimed at influencing Israeli policies, lobby for international sanctions against Israel, and support international campaigns of demonization," reported NGO Monitor President Prof. Gerald Steinberg.

Between the UK, the EU, Norway and Sweden, NRC received over $20 million between 2011 and 2013 to provide "evidence and analysis to form the basis for international pressure on Israel," as well as to change Israeli policy and practice.

What are we to assume from this? That UK taxpayers are fine with their money being abused for the sake of advancing Islam in any part of the world? What happens in Israel could very easily come back to haunt them in the UK, so taxpayers in the UK and Europe should start protesting this misuse of their bread.

Some justice has been done for the Jewish buyers of the Peace House in Hebron, although there's a final step that needs to be taken:

Right wing politicians called on Defense Minister Moshe Ya’alon to allow settlers to move into a four story building — known as Beit HaShalom — in the West Bank city of Hebron, after the High Court of Justice on Tuesday authenticated its purchase by an American Jew from Brooklyn, Morris Abraham.

“We won. We won. We won,” wrote a jubilant Hebron Jewish community spokesman David Wilder on his Facebook page, where he posted those words on top of a photograph of Beit HaShalom, to mark the end of a seven-year battle to strengthen the Jewish presence in that city. [...]

The HCJ’s decision exhausts all legal appeals by the building’s Palestinians owners who had argued the deal, worth over $1 million, was fraudulent The lack of Ya’alon’s approval is now the only remaining obstacle that prevents Jewish families from moving into Beit HaShalom, located just outside the Kiryat Arabia settlement on one of the main roads in Hebron that leads to the Cave of the Patriarchs.

Hebron Jews have in the past argued that their presence there would help safeguard the road to the cave from Palestinian attacks.

While Beit HaShalom is situated in an area of Hebron under Israeli control, if inhabited, it would also be the only Jewish building in a Palestinian neighborhood. The stone structure is also located next to a Mosque and a Muslim cemetery. A Jewish presence in that section of Hebron would expand the slim holdings of the city’s Jewish population of 850, which lives in three separate compounds on the other side of the Cave; Avraham Avinu, Beit Hadassah and Tel Rumaida. [...]

On Tuesday, Construction and Housing Minister Uri Ariel (Bayit Yehudi) called on Ya’alon to pick up where Barak left off. “Today it was conclusively proven that Beit HaShalom belongs to Jews and that its violent evacuation by [former prime minister] Ehud Olmert and Ehud Barak was totally unnecessary. “I call on my friend Defense Minister Moshe Ya’alon to allow the Jews to return home,” Ariel said.

It'll surely come with hazards, but in the end it'll be worth it, and Ya'alon should fully approve the living quarters.

CALGARY - Media reports say two more children belonging to a fringe Jewish sect will be placed in the care of children's aid after being stopped at Calgary International Airport.

Published reports say a 17-year-old girl and her infant daughter — both members of Lev Tahor —were met by police Sunday afternoon and will be returned to Ontario at an unspecified time.

I'm disappointed if the girl fled rather than be relocated to better living quarters, and wouldn't consider her child's welfare. They do not belong in that cult and the mother needs to be reeducated to understand why Lev Tahor is bad for both her and the infant girl. Thank goodness they too have been found.

Now, a runaway Jewish sect that's been ducking the law and trying to stay ahead of child-welfare authorities seizing its kids, is trading on the Holocaust -- using the same yellow badge to symbolize the persecution it insists it's subjected to.

The latest move by the ultra-orthodox Lev Tahor sect, which fled Quebec for Chatham last fall amid allegations of child abuse and neglect, is "inappropriate" and "offensive," some Jewish academics and organizations said Monday.

"They are not being persecuted and brought to death," said Alain Goldschlager, director of the Holocaust Literature Research Institute at Western University.

The Nazis forced Jews to wear the yellow ID badges as they singled them out for extermination in the death camps.

Lev Tahor is misusing that symbolism, Goldschlager said.

B'nai Brith Canada said using such imagery to cast Lev Tahor members as victims is "unacceptable."

"In a nutshell, it's offensive," said Anita Bromberg, the Jewish organization's national director of legal affairs.

"If they've got concerns about the way they're being treated, then they should raise it. But to use such imagery is unacceptable," she said.

"It so understates what the horrors of the Holocaust were, where kids were dragged out of their parents' arms and killed in front of them. Here, authorities -- you can have a dispute about what they're doing -- but the child-welfare officials have a job to do and that's to make sure the kids are well cared for... That's not Nazi behaviour by any means."

This isn't the first time Haredi extremists exploited nazi tactics for pushing their own agendas. Almost 3 years ago, Haredi moonbats over here dressed up children in concentration camp outfits for a victimology show. Lev Tahor's turning to the same. The very cult that sees even Jews as enemies.

It's about time they were shut down and their members taken to a psychologist.

MERKEL HAS NOW SAID THE INVASION OF CRIMEA WAS ILLEGAL AND NATO IS SENDING OBSERVATION/SURVEILLANCE JETS TO UKRAINE. MORE:

... on Monday, the Russian Foreign Ministry said lawlessness "now rules in eastern regions of Ukraine as a result of the actions of fighters of the so-called 'Right Sector,' with the full connivance" of Ukraine's new authorities.

Right Sector is a grouping of several far-right and nationalist factions whose activists were among the most radical and confrontational of the three-month-long demonstrations in the Ukrainian capital, Kyiv, which eventually ousted President Viktor Yanukovych. The Kremlin statement also claimed Russian citizens trying to enter Ukraine have been turned back at the border by Ukrainian officials.

Pro-Russia sentiment is high in Ukraine's east and there are fears Russia could seek to incorporate that area as well. Obama has warned that the referendum in Crimea would violate international law. But on Sunday, Russian President Vladimir Putin made it clear that he supports the vote, in phone calls with German Chancellor Angela Merkel and British Minister David Cameron.

IN FACT, PUTIN BELIEVES THAT IF HE HAD BEEN PRESIDENT OF RUSSIA IN THE 1990'S, SLOBODAN MILOSEVIC WOULD STILL BE ALIVE AND STILL BE PRESIDENT OF GREATER SERBIA.

IS THERE A PEACEFUL WAY OUT?

CHURCHILL WANTED FRANCE AND BRITAIN TO STOP HITLER THEN AND THERE, AND NOT CEDE SUDETENLAND.

BUT, BECAUSE OF YEARS OF DISARMAMENT AND APPEASEMENT, BRITAIN AND FRANCE THOUGHT THEY WERE NO MATCH FOR HITLER'S ARMY. (THEY WERE WRONG.)

HAD HITLER BEEN CONFRONTED THEN, THE LOSSES WOULD HAVE BEEN MINUSCULE COMPARED TO THE LOSSES SUFFERED BY EUROPE IN WW2.

BUT WE ARE ILL-POSITIONED FOR AN KINETIC MOVE DIRECTLY AGAINST PUTIN IN CRIMEA.

WE NEED TO STRIKE ELSEWHERE.

HOW? WHERE?

HERE'S HOW AND WHERE:

FIRST, WE ADMIT UKRAINE TO NATO AND INVOKE ARTICLE 5:

Article 5 of the Washington Treaty:

The Parties agree that an armed attack against one or more of them in Europe or North America shall be considered an attack against them all and consequently they agree that, if such an armed attack occurs, each of them, in exercise of the right of individual or collective self-defence recognised by Article 51 of the Charter of the United Nations, will assist the Party or Parties so attacked by taking forthwith, individually and in concert with the other Parties, such action as it deems necessary, including the use of armed force, to restore and maintain the security of the North Atlantic area.

Any such armed attack and all measures taken as a result thereof shall immediately be reported to the Security Council. Such measures shall be terminated when the Security Council has taken the measures necessary to restore and maintain international peace and security.

THEN, I THINK WE SHOULD COUNTER AGAINST PUTIN'S VASSAL STATES - IRAN AND SYRIA:

(I THINK RUSSIA HAS USED IRAN AND SYRIA THE WAY I THINK CHINA HAS USED NORTH KOREA: AS A REMOTE-CONTROLLED THORN IN THE WEST'S SIDE.)

WE SHOULD PREEMPTIVELY ATTACK IRAN'S NUCLEAR ASSETS AND MILITARY ASSETS...

AND THEN DEMOLISH SYRIA'S WMD'S...

AND THEN DECLARE SYRIA IS PARTITIONED BY RECOGNIZING AN INDEPENDENT KURDISH STATE.

THEN, WE SHOULD BLOCKADE THE BLACK SEA BY BLOCKADING THE BOSPORUS OR THE AEGEAN - INVOKING NATO ARTICLE 5.

YOUR MOVE VLADIMIR.

(IF YOU ARE AFRAID OF THIS - WHICH WOULD PROBABLY LEAD TO WAR - THE REMEMBER WHAT REAGAN SAID: YOU CAN ALWAYS HAVE PEACE. JUST SURRENDER!

The Budapest Memorandum was negotiated as a political agreement. It refers to assurances, not defined, but less than a military guarantee of intervention.[2][8] According to Stephen MacFarlane, a professor of international relations "It gives signatories justification if they take action, but it does not force anyone to act in Ukraine."[7]

According to the memorandum, Russia, the U.S., and the UK confirmed, in recognition of Ukraine becoming party to the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons and in effect abandoning its nuclear arsenal to Russia, that they would:Respect Ukrainian independence and sovereignty within its existing borders.

Refrain from the threat or use of force against Ukraine.Refrain from using economic pressure on Ukraine in order to influence its politics.

Seek United Nations Security Council action if nuclear weapons are used against Ukraine.

Refrain from the use of nuclear arms against Ukraine.Consult with one another if questions arise regarding these commitments.[6]

The memorandum bundled together a set of assurances that Ukraine already held from the Conference on Security and Co-operation in Europe (CSCE) Final Act, United Nations Charter and Non-Proliferation Treaty. The Ukrainian government nevertheless found it politically valuable to have these assurances in a Ukraine-specific document. [7][8]

THOUGH NOT A TREATY RATIFIED BY THE US SENATE, IT STILL HAS THE SAME EFFECT AS OBAMA'S RED-LINE ON SYRIA, AND A FAILURE TO ENFORCE IT HAS THE SAME ILL-EFFECT AS HIS FAILING TO ENFORCE HIS UN-RATIFIED RED-LINE:

FAILING TO ENFORCE OUR "ASSURANCES" REVEALS TO OUR ENEMIES - LIKE PUTIN, CHINA AND IRAN - THAT WE ARE A NATION THAT WON'T DEFEND OUR ALLIES.

IGNORING THAT ARRANGEMENT WITH UKRAINE - A DEAL UPON WHICH THAT NATION GOT RID OF ITS BEST DEFENSE AGAINST INVASION - LIKE OBAMA IGNORING HIS RED-LINE WOULD FURTHER SOLIDIFY THE FACT THAT CONTRARY TO HIS SELF-DEFENSE IN 2008 - AND HIS OBAMACARE LIES FROM 2009 TO 2014, WORDS REALLY DON'T MATTER TO OBAMA.

(NO OTHER PRESIDENT WAS PREVIOUSLY PUT INTO A SITUATION WHICH WOULD REQUIRE HIM TO ENFORCE THE UKRAINE AGREEMENT. OBAMA HAS BEEN PUT INTO THIS SITUATION AND HE IS FAILING TO TAKE ANY EFFECTIVE MEASURE.)

THESE ARE JUST PUZZLING QUESTIONS THAT LEAD TO A TROUBLING POSSIBLE SCENARIO:

1 - THE STOLEN PASSPORTS WERE USED BY IRANIANS.
2 - THERE'S BEEN NO CLAIM FOR THE ATTACK - UNUSUAL FOR TERRORIST ATTACKS BECAUSE TO INFLICT TERROR THE TERRORIST USUALLY WANTS THE PUBLIC TO KNOW WHO DID IT SO THEY KNOW WHO TO APPEASE.
3 - THERE'S NO DEBRIS.
4 - THE FLIGHT DISAPPEARED AT MAXIMUM ALTITUDE.

WAS THERE AN IRANIAN OR CHINESE VESSEL IN THE AREA - THAT USED A DIRECTED EMP WEAPON, OR DID THE IRANIANS WHO WERE USING THE FAKE PASSPORTS CHECK IN SOME UNUSUAL BAGGAGE THAT WAS EITHER NOT SCREENED OR HAD INNARDS THAT MAY HAVE SEEMED STRANGE BUT DIDN'T SET OFF ANY ALARMS?

IF IRAN BELIEVED THEY HAD A WAY TO SMUGGLE A SLIGHTLY BIGGER EMF DEVICE ABOARD A JET AND DIRECT IT'S EFFECTS OVER A MAJOR CITY IN THE USA, THEN THEY MIGHT WANT TO TEST IT FIRST ON A JET OVER A NON-POPULATED AREA.

Interpol secretary general Ronald K. Noble identified the men as Pouri Nourmohammadi, 19, and Delavar Seyedmohammaderza, 29. Noble said that the two men had traveled to Malaysia from Tehran using Iranian passports, but had secured stolen Italian and Austrian passports in Kuala Lumpur for their journey to Beijing and Amsterdam, for which both had tickets and planned to travel together.

Malaysian authorities said that Nourmohammadi planned to proceed from Amsterdam to Frankfurt, Germany, where his mother lives. The woman contacted authorities when her son failed to arrive as planned. The BBC reported that Seyedmohammaderza's intended final destination was Copenhagen, Denmark.

HMMM... WERE THEY DUPES GIVEN SOMETHING TO TAKE ON BOARD OR IN THEIR LUGGAGE?

OR... IS THIS HOW THE ENEMY NOW PLANS TO GET SUICIDE-AGENTS ABOARD JETS?

WILL THE MOTHER IN FRANKFURT RECEIVE A DEATH BENEFIT IN THE COMING MONTHS FROM IRAN, (AS SADDAM USED TO BESTOW ON TERRORIST'S FAMILIES)?

Fox News reports about the weapons captured from the Iranian ship bound for Gaza:

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu blasted the international community's "self-deception" regarding Iran as defense officials unveiled an arsenal of weapons the Islamic Republic is accused of trying to smuggle into Gaza.

Israeli Defense Forces unloaded the cargo of the Panamanian-flagged ship that its commandos boarded last week off the coast of Sudan, displaying 40 M-302 missiles with a range in excess of 100 miles, 181 mortar shells and 400,000 AK-47 bullets.

"The goal was to have rained down on the heads of Israel's citizens," Netanyahu thundered from the port of Eilat, where the Klos C was towed after being boarded in the Red Sea.

Netanyahu noted that the assorted rockets, mortars and other munitions could have reached Tel Aviv, Jerusalem and even Haifa. He accused the international community of ignoring Iranian support for militant groups and being deluded by Tehran's claims to be willing to tame its nuclear weapons program.

"Iran, a brutal regime, has not abandoned its deep involvement in terrorism, its systematic efforts to undermine peace and security throughout the Middle East and its ambition to destroy the state of Israel," Netanyahu said. "What is new is not Iran's deeds or its lies, but the desire of many in the international community to bury their heads in the sand.

"Just as Iran hid its deadly missiles in the belly of this ship, Iran is hiding its actions and its intentions in many of its key installations for developing nuclear weapons," he continued.

Those world governments who put their heads in the sand about Iran's terrorist provisions are a disgrace and unsuited for their jobs.

The U.S. State Department does not consider it necessary for Palestinians to recognize Israel as a Jewish State, said spokesperson Jen Psaki, according to an interview in the Palestinian daily newspaper Al-Quds Saturday.

"Our position is that Israel is a Jewish state, but it is not necessary for the two sides to agree on this in the final agreement," Psaki told Al-Quds, in a translation from Arabic produced by the Times of Israel on Sunday.

So again, they're only encouraging the PLO to keep being callous and hostile to Israel, a very poor example.

RELIAPUNDIT ADDS:THIS IS WORSE THAN A POOR EXAMPLE; THIS IS TREACHEROUS AND A COMPLETE REVERSAL OF LONG-HELD USA POLICY.IN 1947, U.N.G.A. RESOLUTION 181 AUTHORIZED THE CREATION OF A JEWISH STATE.SO THE REQUIRING ABBAS AND OTHER ARAB NATIONS RECOGNIZE ISRAEL AS THE JEWISH STATE IS NOT A NEW DEMAND, NOT A "RIGHT-WING" LIKUD DEMAND, AND NOT AN OUTRAGEOUS DEMAND.PEOPLE WHO ARGUE IT'S A DEAL BREAKER ARE ANTISEMITIC SCUM.THE JEWISH STATE OF ISRAEL MUST NOT EVER MAKE ANY DEAL WITH ANY STATE WHICH FAILS TO ACCEPT ISRAEL AS A JEWISH STATE.MANY STATES ARE OFFICIALLY RELIGIOUS STATES OF ONE DENOMINATION OR ANOTHER.ISRAEL IS JUST ONE MANY DOZENS.AND ISRAEL IS THE ONLY JEWISH STATE AND THE ONLY DEMOCRATIC STATE IN THE MIDDLE EAST AND THE ONLY MIDDLE EASTERN STATE IN WHICH IT IS SAFE TO PRACTICE ANY RELIGION.ISRAEL HAS ARAB/MUSLIM MEMBERS OF THE KNESSET AND THERE'S EVEN AN ARAB MUSLIM JUDGE ON THE ISRAELI SUPREME COURT.WHEN ARABS CAN SAY THE SAME THING ABOUT THEIR NATIONS - THAT PEOPLE OF ANY RELIGION CAN PRACTICE THERE AND ACHIEVE HIGH GOVERNMENTAL OFFICE, THEN THERE WILL BE A CHANCE AT PEACE.UNTIL THEN ALL THIS PEACE PROCESS TALK IS TOTAL UNADULTERATED BULLSHIT.A DELUSION.A DANGEROUS DELUSION.

“It went well,” said Sgt. Dave Housdon of Peel's airport division. “The kids are off the plane and in the company of Chatham-Kent Children's Services.”

The three adults were to be processed by border security, said Housdon.

The sect members on the plane are in the control of Canadian authorities, the source said. The source said law enforcement agents are on the aircraft.

The flight departed Trinidad and Tobago Saturday afternoon. Fiona Thivierge, a communications officer with Peel police said she did not know if any criminal charges were pending and directed inquiries about that to Chatham-Kent police, who are leading the investigation.

Well, I guess the authorities who initially derelicted their duties by failing to confiscate the abusive cultists' passports are off the hook. And, the authorities in Trinidad-Tobago deserve some credit too. At least half the number of children who needed saving from those clannish creeps have been removed from their custody, although, as some news reports have noted, the other half are in Guatemala, and another still may be in New York.

They may eventually be returned and rescued, but, as this Montreal Gazette report says, taking care of the children raised under such oppressive, abusive mentality will be hard:

...caring for the children will be no easy task, said Mendy Marcus, a product of the foster care system.

Marcus, 20, grew up in an ultra-Orthodox Jewish home as the youngest boy in a family of 12 children. At age 9, he and his siblings were removed from their home in Boisbriand, north of Montreal, because their father was physically abusive. Even though he was no longer in his care, his religious father continued to exert control over his life, including his schooling and the foster families he was placed with. Youth protection officials granted his father’s request that Mendy, then 11, and his older brother be sent from Montreal to live with the Lev Tahor community in the home of one of its leaders, Uriel Goldman in Ste-Agathe-des-Monts.

This is a pure shocker. Several years ago, authorities were letting Lev Tahor run their repellent business unfettered, and even allowed them to operate as foster guardians. That was really irresponsible, and I'm glad the truth is coming out about the cult now.

His brother remains with the community today, is married and has a son. Marcus said he feels for all the children in the community, and would like child protection services to remove them all, including his nephew. Quebec’s Department of Youth Protection has said it is working with its Ontario counterparts to remove all 127 children from Lev Tahor.

Marcus said the road ahead for the 13 children ordered to live with foster families will be a difficult one.

“They’re all under the impression that if they are placed in foster care, it’s like they’re put in a house with Nazis,” he said. “All other Jewish communities aren’t doing it right. According to the (Lev Tahor) community, everyone else is going to hell.”

He said as long as the children remain in contact with their families and the Lev Tahor sect, they won’t be able to adjust to a normal life.

Mike Kropveld, the executive director of Info-cult, a non-profit charitable organization, agreed it will be emotionally difficult for the children to leave the community.

“They have probably grown up with fear of those on the outside,” he said. “Since they are the ones that are the exclusive holders of truth, those on the outside will be perceived as enemies set out to destroy their spiritual life.”

I'm afraid he's right. A lot of insular Haredi sects consider natural shows of emotion like hugging and kissing abominable, and Lev Tahor may have made things worse by indoctrinating the children to think the mere sight and presence of an "outsider" who doesn't dress/think/act their way is a monster, even Jews. And I wouldn't be surprised if, via their anti-Israel positions, they taught them that Jewish symbols like Stars of David and Menorahs are equivalent to nazi symbols like swastikas. If they damaged the children's minds that badly, that's truly offensive.

I've often wondered how sects like these manage to twist the Torah/bible out of context to believe God didn't want the Israelites to leave Egypt, return to Israel and lead a self-determined life. I wish the papers had asked refugees from abusive cults like these how this comes to be. One day, we'll hopefully receive the answer to that question.

Members born in the community often have very rudimentary knowledge of any language that’s not Yiddish. One former member who spoke to The Gazette on condition of anonymity said she had trouble with basic tasks like going to the store, taking the bus, or even being in the same room as a man who was not her husband, as the community has strict rules separating men and women.

Another former member living in Montreal successfully got his five children ordered out of the community by a youth court last year. They have been living with a foster family. The father has yet to gain custody of his children.

Kropveld said if the children are removed, the ideal scenario is for them to be reunited with their parents if the situation improves. In that case, youth protection officials will have to closely follow what happens with the community.

“If the group stays the way it is, it is less likely the children will be returned (if the parents remain part of the community), but a group can change,” he said. “If parents leave the group, what kind of state will they be in, and what kind of help will they need? If they have been in the group their whole life and have no education, no language or budgetary skills, what are they going to do?”

Marcus is afraid the children will struggle to find stability in foster care. In his case, he lived with a different foster family or group home almost every year.

I just hope any who'd been abused badly will be glad they're no longer among such awful demons. There may be some parents who'll leave the community, but still others who won't, and those who don't cannot be allowed anywhere near the children. Those who leave will need help in readjusting to life in bigger society, and should have communications with Jews who aren't Haredi, in order to learn how Judaism is not and never was exclusively Haredi, and isn't the distorted reflection Shlomo Helbrans and his vile gang twisted it into.